‘Reviews & more’ Category

  1. Mr Peacock’s Possessions: sources and background reading

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    May 4, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    As noted in the book, the most important sources for Mr Peacock’s Possessions were: Elsie K Morton Crusoes of Sunday Island, 1957. Steven Gentry, Raoul …
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  2. LIBERTY’S FIRE reviews

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    May 19, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    ‘remarkable…a novel of extraordinary resonance and power…Both as a gripping narrative which defines the meaning of ‘page-turner’ perfectly and also …
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  3. A WORLD BETWEEN US reviews

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    April 19, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Christmas book pick in The Observer , The Telegraph , The Morning Star & Radio Suffolk, Teen book club choice on The Guardian Children’s Book website, recommended …
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  4. THAT BURNING SUMMER reviews

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    April 18, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Please follow links for full reviews (where available): Linda Newbery wrote in Armadillo (Editor’s Choice): ‘Lydia Syson is the kind of writer who …
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  5. DOCTOR OF LOVE reviews

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    April 17, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    “Syson’s enthralling book offers a new portrait of Graham as an authentic innovator… [An] admirable and engaging book.” – The Guardian …
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  6. Find out more about about the history behind Liberty’s Fire

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    March 2, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    ‘What is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?’ (Marx:The Civil War in France) Simply put, the …
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  7. That Burning Summer: links and background resources

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    March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Interested in exploring any of the history, ideas or places in That Burning Summer?  Here are some good starting points –


  8. Find out more about the background to A WORLD BETWEEN US

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    March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    There have been about 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, …
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  9. Privacy Policy

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    May 25, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    MY EUGDPR STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE


  10. The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case – JQ review

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    April 12, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case – Review



“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

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